Rubberband B-24

[Django]

check this out, a rubberband powered B-24. Looks awesome!

http://www.ffscale.co.uk/page3kk.htm

Does anyone have any experience with these? How do they hold up in their landings? I played with some rubberband airplanes as a kid but were nothing fancy. Seem like alot of work for something that does land, it crashes.

[spookythecat]

There are some pretty cool planes on there. Never had the patience for those types of models.

[TAdan]

Wow, great builds! I love those old Guillows wooden kits I've built a few.

I've never seen multi-engined rubber band powered flyers though!

All of mine usually make about a dozen flights...then I have to rebuild the nose, retire them, and hang them from the ceiling.

They take forever to build too. My last one, a 1/16 Cessna, never even got covered. I just built it, and added a nice finish to the wood and hung it up without any "skin". I didnt have the heart to fly it (and crash it) after all that work.

[tom d. friedman]

excellent stuff. i know a retired lawyer who makes & flies ultra ultra light models in competitions in mostly gymnasiums. these models are light as feathers, & takes real dexterity to assemble & handle. watching them fly is about as exciting as watching paint dry, but fascinating when you factor in the skill involved. the competition is all time & distance related. i've held a few. they weigh less than a postage envelope.

[the330thbg]

Didn't the 'Lindberg' line of plastic models make some rubberband ones?

I don't think they flew, but the props would turn.

[Steve Nelson]

Lindberg had some motorized models..but they were electric, not rubber band powered. You actually had to build the motor, including assembling and winding the armature. I never could get the things to work.

SN

[tom d. friedman]

Lindberg had some motorized models..but they were electric, not rubber band powered. You actually had to build the motor, including assembling and winding the armature. I never could get the things to work.

SN

ditto, including my jfk pt- 109 kit. it was later strafed with my bb gun.

[k5083]

The difficulty with most multi engine types (except P-38, F-82 etc.) is that the nacelle isn't long enough for a goodly length of rubber. The nacelles on that B-24 look to have been stretched a bit but there's still not room for much duration. Stick and tissue is very fun modeling but nowadays I would go with micro electric, maybe even micro RC, over rubber.

August

[Cubs]

check this out, a rubberband powered B-24. Looks awesome!

Does anyone have any experience with these? How do they hold up in their landings? I played with some rubberband airplanes as a kid but were nothing fancy. Seem like alot of work for something that does land, it crashes.

I have a fair of amount of experience with the single motor variety.
The difficulty to build them and the survivability can vary quite a bit.
That B-24 was built by Chris Starleaf. As far as I'm concerned Chris has few equals in that hobby. My models , mostly Guillows and a couple of scratch builds, fly very well. I have two models that are my favorite flyers, both are 4 years old and have flown many times. The key, I think, is to start with a decent design and then proper trimming for flight.
A model such as the Guillow Javelin, can be built in a day. Flies very well and I think costs about $11.00. Probably, the most active free-flight site on the web is: www.smallflyingarts.com Maybe, you might get interested again. I did, after many years absence.

[TAdan]

check this out, a rubberband powered B-24. Looks awesome!

Does anyone have any experience with these? How do they hold up in their landings? I played with some rubberband airplanes as a kid but were nothing fancy. Seem like alot of work for something that does land, it crashes.

I have a fair of amount of experience with the single motor variety.
The difficulty to build them and the survivability can vary quite a bit.
That B-24 was built by Chris Starleaf. As far as I'm concerned Chris has few equals in that hobby. My models , mostly Guillows and a couple of scratch builds, fly very well. I have two models that are my favorite flyers, both are 4 years old and have flown many times. The key, I think, is to start with a decent design and then proper trimming for flight.
A model such as the Guillow Javelin, can be built in a day. Flies very well and I think costs about $11.00. Probably, the most active free-flight site on the web is: www.smallflyingarts.com Maybe, you might get interested again. I did, after many years absence.

I built two Javelins and they were the best flyers I ever built.

It is getting to that time of year again, maybe I should build another...

[Chad Veich]

The difficulty with most multi engine types (except P-38, F-82 etc.) is that the nacelle isn't long enough for a goodly length of rubber. The nacelles on that B-24 look to have been stretched a bit but there's still not room for much duration. Stick and tissue is very fun modeling but nowadays I would go with micro electric, maybe even micro RC, over rubber.

August

Electric R/C B-24 by a friend of mine, Dereck Micko. This is from a kit by Wowplanes and is around 60 inches span. Relatively small by multi engine R/C standards. Has retracts as well.

[B29B24crewchief]

Can we have a flying event here at the CAF hangar? Let me know what you think!!
Dave

[retroaviation]

There's already a two day event in the hangar each year, for electric powered RC airplanes. Holler at Bill Coombes about it.

Gary

[the330thbg]

The difficulty with most multi engine types (except P-38, F-82 etc.) is that the nacelle isn't long enough for a goodly length of rubber. The nacelles on that B-24 look to have been stretched a bit but there's still not room for much duration. Stick and tissue is very fun modeling but nowadays I would go with micro electric, maybe even micro RC, over rubber.

August

Electric R/C B-24 by a friend of mine, Dereck Micko. This is from a kit by Wowplanes and is around 60 inches span. Relatively small by multi engine R/C standards. Has retracts as well.

I am not being critical, but are the wings on that B-24 'beefier' than a normal B-24? It looks a little out of proportion.. somewhere..

Also, how does a model B-24 handle compared to the 'real' thing. A good friend of mine flew them in Europe and always said he constantly had to apply a slight 'right' hand approach.., The joke was that you could always tell B-24 pilots because they looked like Hermit Crabs.. they had one GIANT right arm!!

[Chris Brame]

Lindberg had some motorized models..but they were electric, not rubber band powered. You actually had to build the motor, including assembling and winding the armature. I never could get the things to work.

I built two of those motors from Lindberg Zero kits; one went into the Zero and the other into a Monogram P-40B. Not powerful at all (you had to spin the prop to start them) but they ran well enough until the magnets gave up the ghost some 20-odd years later.